I felt a “click” in my brain reading this comment, like an old “something feels off, but I’m not sure what” feeling about rationality techniques finally resolving itself.
If this comment were a post, and I were in the curating-posts business, I’d curate it. The demystified concrete examples of the mental motion “use a tool from an unsciencey field to help debug scientists” are super helpful.
Just want to second that I think this comment is particularly important. There’s a particular bug where I can get innoculated to a whole class of useful rationality interventions that don’t match my smell for “rationality intervention”, but the whole reason they’re a blindspot in the first place is because of that smell… or something.
I feel like this comment should perhaps be an AIRCS class—not on meta-ethics, but on ‘how to think about what doing debugging your brain is, if your usual ontology is “some activities are object-level engineering, some activities are object-level science, and everything else is bullshit or recreation”’. (With meta-ethics addressed in passing as a concrete example.)
I felt a “click” in my brain reading this comment, like an old “something feels off, but I’m not sure what” feeling about rationality techniques finally resolving itself.
If this comment were a post, and I were in the curating-posts business, I’d curate it. The demystified concrete examples of the mental motion “use a tool from an unsciencey field to help debug scientists” are super helpful.
Just want to second that I think this comment is particularly important. There’s a particular bug where I can get innoculated to a whole class of useful rationality interventions that don’t match my smell for “rationality intervention”, but the whole reason they’re a blindspot in the first place is because of that smell… or something.
I feel like this comment should perhaps be an AIRCS class—not on meta-ethics, but on ‘how to think about what doing debugging your brain is, if your usual ontology is “some activities are object-level engineering, some activities are object-level science, and everything else is bullshit or recreation”’. (With meta-ethics addressed in passing as a concrete example.)